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09/04/2009 1:36 pm
Thought some of you might be interested in this vintage brochure and post card advertising the RIVER QUEEN, formerly the GORDON C. GREENE and originally built here at Jeffersonville in 1923 as the CAPE GIRARDEAU for the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis. After retirement in 1952 the boat was at Portsmouth, OH for a brief time named SARAH LEE, then at Owensboro, KY as THE STERNWHEELER (during which time a movie "The Kentuckian" was filmed on Green River) and then to Bradenton, Florida. The boat was a "bust" as a tourist attraction there and it wasn't long before she was sold and taken to New Orleans. Again, there wasn't enough interest to pay the bills and she next ended up at Hannibal Missouri, remaining there until March of 1964. She finally "went home" to St. Louis, where she was a popular restaurant, moored just above the Eads Bridge. But, alas, she sank on December 2, 1967 and that was her doom.
09/04/2009 2:29 pm
There seems to be much similar here to the current DQ marketing. Is this to be the fate of our beloved DQ? Somehow we MUST get the public interstested in our cause, or invesotrs willing to gamble on getting the exemption and the where-withall to wake up congress. Remember, not since 1811 have there been NO overnight accomodations on the Mississippi river systems. This IS a crisis folks!
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David D.
18/02/2015 11:34 am
Sarah lee
Does annybody have som photos of the GCG when she was the sarah lee?